CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 10 December 1940, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL

BREAKING-UP CEREMONY MINISTER’S ADDRESS [United Press Association] WELLINGTON. This Day. The ceremony of breaking-up a correspondence school was held to-day at the Town Hall and was broadcast for the benefit of parents and children, only the teachers, of course, being present. Mr S. H. Roberts, of Tokomaru Valley, chairman of the Parents’ Association, presided and both the Minister and Director of Education were present. The Hon. H. G. R. Mason paid a tribute t' the work of the headmaster and staff and ir his address made special reference to the building of New Zealand by the parents of country children. The Minister bore m mind, too, those children physically unable to attend school personally and extended the good wishes of the Government and himself and the school to the pupils and those associated with them for a happy Christmas and a good New Year. The headmaster. Dr. Butchers, in his report, said that at the end of the second term this year the enrolment of the primary department was 1780, and the secondary 1251. an aggregate of 3031. The number enrolled on the ground of physical disability was 317; the number of part-time students was 553, and part-time adult students 495. Other groups comprised 202 junior officers of the P. and T. Department and 58 teachers of Grade I and Nativ' schools